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They will also inexplicably (to themselves as well as others) find the very words "five year plan" and "great leap forward" sinister, to the extent of using them as punchlines to non-existent jokes whenever a phrase travels in that direction.
"We need to make a plan to fix thi-"
"As long as it's not a five-year-plan, amiright?"
Pam Bondi: ‘What Is The DOJ Hiding?’
WASHINGTON—Casting doubts on the agency’s recently released review of the late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference Wednesday to ask what the Department of Justice was hiding. “The department’s memo claims there was no client list and Epstein died by suicide—that’s very suspicious, don’t you think?” said Bondi, who told reporters the deep-state swamp was attempting, as it always does, to shield the rich and powerful from the consequences of their depraved actions. “I have it on good authority from someone on the inside that it’s all rigged, plain and simple. The corruption runs deep. The DOJ cannot be trusted. I mean, there’s a missing minute from the tape they released of his prison cell door. Like, come on, if that’s not a cover up, I don’t know what is.” At press time, Bondi claimed the truth would never come out as long as the compromised leadership of the Justice Department remained in charge.
An embarrassment to Minotaur-Americans everywhere
The poster from /r/cth who began every paragraph with "As a libertarian . . ." is probably already a judge somewhere but is somehow being coerced into not breaking character.
I'd like to see what dril does with the Office of Management and Budget.
@[email protected] was right three years ago:
It's a real account of a person who is, himself, a bit.
Middle-Aged Man In Gym Locker Room Puts Shirt On Before Underwear
FREDERICKSBURG, VA—Unable to fully avert their gaze as the situation unfolded, sources in the men’s locker room at Capital Fitness confirmed Thursday that a middle-aged gym patron put on his shirt before his underwear. “I swear the guy’s pair of briefs were sitting right there on the bench, but he just ignored them and went straight for his shirt,” said onlooker Mike Housakos, who noted that instead of continuing to dress himself after buttoning his shirt down to his waist, the man then walked all the way to the opposite side of the locker room to deposit his towel in the bin. “And it’s not like he was in any rush to get his underwear on after that. He even picked up his phone and looked at it for a little bit. Jesus.” Sources confirmed that at press time, the half-nude man was putting on his socks.
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The short-lived provision, which will officially be repealed on August 28, required Missouri employers to provide workers with an hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours of work. Businesses with 15 or more employees were required to provide up to 56 hours of earned paid sick time per year, and businesses with fewer than 15 employees were required to provide at least 40 hours of paid sick time.
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Throughout the process of pushing H.B. 567 through the Legislature, Missouri Republicans openly voiced contempt for voters who supported the paid sick leave and minimum wage initiative. One GOP lawmaker, state Rep. Mitch Boggs, said, “Of course the people voted for it.”
“It’d be like asking your teenager if he wanted a checkbook,” said Boggs.
Back at the convention the next morning, a Border Patrol agent was walking the agency’s emotional support dog around the conference perimeter. Her name was Willow, her handler said, and she was 5 years old.
She was giant and soft, with impeccable fur, and had already flown to sixteen different countries. She belonged to a special, docile German breed called the Leonburger and her job was to confer warmth to Border Patrol agents on the verge of committing suicide. She would work as long as she wanted to work and was hungry for lunch, the handler said.
Willow should quit her job without giving notice.
So you've spent your political career trying to fix the known problems in American prisons, right?
That thumbnail tho
It seems all of us, the Trump administration included, underestimated the number of people who genuinely believed that Trump hung out with Epstein so as to "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." I think we all thought that was bad faith but it turns out some folks were just that gullible, and even they have a limit.
(They'll forget about it in a week, probably, but it's been interesting to observe.)
Was that Knut Hamsun? Let's hope it was only one.
Hamsun's novels are actually really great. I haven't seen the biopic so maybe he went bad earlier than I think, but if only he'd dropped dead the day he won his Nobel instead of living another 32 years.
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A sprawling 2,560-bed facility in the high desert town of California City (Kern County) is poised to become the largest migrant detention center in California under a new agreement between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison contractor CoreCivic.
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“Never in our 42-year company history have we had so much activity and demand for our services as we are seeing right now,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said during an earnings call with shareholders last month, citing the company’s general business.
This guy's address is googleable.
California City Mayor Marquette Hawkins acknowledged potential economic benefits, including an estimated 550 new jobs.
“However, we understand that 40% of our residents are Latino,” Hawkins told the Californian. “We want to make sure there is fairness there. We talked about oversight and my office having the ability to do that.”
Incredible.
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Wall Street Journal commenters tut-tut all revolutions
(hexbear.net)
Under a review of a book that helpfully informs us that revolutions are authoritarian. 
“Authoritarianism,” he writes, “is one of the most striking features” of revolutions. Napoleon was an archetype, followed by a grim parade of successors: “Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot … Khomeini.”
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“The principle of popular sovereignty could be disregarded in the name of the people,” Mr. Edelstein writes. “It was in the name of a future, improved democratic government by people Y that the present, inferior democratic government by people X must be suspended.” Ancient despots had promised order. Modern despots were empowered by the allure of so-called historical progress, to be achieved with terror and coercion. The hiss and thud of the guillotine, the gutters running with blood, the show trials and purges, the inevitable dictatorships of “virtue” or the “proletariat”: These were not failures, Mr. Edelstein suggests, but the necessary if exorbitant price of progress.
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“The inevitable compromises of democratic governance,” he writes of our present moment, “do not sit easily with either progressives or traditionalists. Liberal democracy gets worn down by historical expectations or regrets.” This general ennui produces perilous effects: a taste for centralized power, distain [sic] for procedural justice, aggressive ideological purity, contempt for moderation. Whatever his intentions, Mr. Edelstein may find that his study of revolutions induces in readers an appreciation for the age-old, Polybian balance of the U.S. Constitution, even as history threatens to overtake it. We should certainly hope so.
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Kelly - The Needled and the Damaged Son
(hexbear.net)
https://theonion.com/the-needled-and-the-damaged-son/
From yesterday, but if it was posted already I can't find it beneath all of the E~L~O~N gossip.
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